Former Zamfara State lawmaker, Senator Kabiru Marafa, says President Bola Tinubu has saved Nigeria’s democracy by not interfering in the judgements of the Supreme Court on the 2023 governorship election.
Marafa, who represented Zamfara Central at the National Assembly from 2011 to 2019, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
The former lawmaker, who was Zamfara Coordinator, Presidential Campaign Council for President Bola Tinubu for the 2023 general election, said that Tinubu and the justices of the apex court had lived up to the expectations of Nigerians.
“Posterity will judge them well for allowing the will of the Nigerian voters to prevail.
“It is a welcome development. Tinubu, by this singular action of non-interference in the Supreme Court judgement, has saved the country’s democracy and forestalled the repeat of the 1983 scenario.
“You will recall that it was after the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) grabbed states that were hitherto of the opposition that the Second Republic collapsed,” he said.
Marafa also applauded the justices of the Supreme Court, saying they had lived up to the expectations of the Nigerian masses, adding that they had made the country proud and had written their names in gold.
He said that the apex court ruling had reinforced his belief in the ability and capacity of the judiciary to right any wrong in political evolution.
He recalled a similar incident during the buildup to the 2019 general election, in which he was then the leading contender for the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara. Credit: dailypost.ng
